Tight IT Budgets Put Crimp In SAN Plans

Computerworld | News Source
2003-04-23

David Chamberlain, vice president of architecture and capacity planning at Providian Financial Corp., last week said the biggest challenge he will face this year is trying to manage the company's 170TB of storage following layoffs that cut Providian's IT staff from 1,300 people to 750.

With only 30TB of networked storage in place, Chamberlain said, increasing the amount of disk capacity that resides on in San Francisco-based Providian's' storage-area network (SAN) represents the lowest-hanging fruit for him.

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